May 29, 2026

I offered the COO role to Jacob, along with the best deal I could.

I dunno. I have this -- gut instinct that 90% Trump was right on his hunches over. And I have a strong feeling about Jacob.

What I like about him - is he just showed up - and he told me things to do - he was so honest and I like that about people.

Without any fear.

And it reminded me of me.

I think I 2x'ed the original proposal to him.

But it's really hard to like hire the Eric Schmidts of the world, I mean, dunno how long Larry Page and Sergey Brin had to

Burn through those candidates until they found one person

And no -- there's no The Apprentice (Sri Lanka), no Alan Sugar, no Shark Tank, no -- there's just silence, then, reading CVs, and listening, and picking.

Jacob is the one we chose. He's also amongst the first to apply. Shockingly. We got about 10 people. And we'll close it.

I used LinkedIn, Wellfound and Indeed. And I remember that Bob Bigman, he promised me he'd be a director at my firm, if we were a US company indeed.

I always liked that dude, he was the CISO of the CIA, and I called him up, and he emailed me and said, sure man, I'll be happy to help you on your board.

It takes a real big f***ing man to do that.

Jacob, I mean, we'll see. He's probably thinking it through. Hemasiri is writing his book.

Jacob's decision-tree

I think I have always had this, bias in favor of Jews.. I dunno. I think it's that Jonathan Hirshon or Jacques, or Friedman, whatever.

But they got some positive bias.

And I feel a little bit safer with them.

I don't feel as safe with people, who I don't really, get along with, and whose personality I can't bear to tolerate or put up with.

I won't hire you if you're an annoying f***ing whatever.

Why?

Why would I?

It's not going to happen.

I think it must violate some California or US Federal labor laws, or not, but I don't care. I rather violate that, than have to put up with some runt who keeps bitching and being such a sour crybaby.

How the f*** are you going to deal with that? If I owned McDonalds or Starbucks or some Apple, or whatever, I'd pay the CEO like a $1m just so I don't have to deal with the crybabies, who can't think at all. I hate people like that.

I am so annoyed by some people, like, I can't even explain it, just so much disgust, at their energy; just so much hate

I try my best to pretend, like I'm a human being, and stuff. But I can't. I have so much contempt for them.

Just so annoying.

It's one of those black luxuries.

I love how I don't have to -- and can't -- put up with them.

Anyway, I have to go back to editing my book.

I had a funny call with Hemasiri. I kept like, playing the Devil, in his life, in his story as this f***ed up director, who kept demanding "death", "fight", "injustice". At one point, the inner Quentin id in me, was like, "Make sure you put in some foul language". And I kept pushing the guy as an author. Until Sam, or ChatGPT, was like, "No, it's a memoir". And "Don't force fake drama". And stuff.

Because it's just a personal thing, I just, PREFER, to read stuff, that is dark. And when there's no tension/conflict, violence, it's so boring, I can't even read it. My mind just falls to sleep. It's horrifying.

I wrote some editorial recommendations, but it's his book to write. I love black comedy, dark content and macaber stuff in products.

In the end, it is likely his book, will sell to more family friendly, general audiences, but won't really do well with those looking for thrillers.

I prefer the game I made for him. But whatever. I'm so intolerant of people I don't like. I'm the most antisocial one I know.

I slept thru whole Oppenheimer movie, until they blew something up, or Prez said, "Don't let that crybaby back in here!"

That was literally, the only time in that whole sad f***ing movie, I woke up to laugh for a bit, and then, I slumped forward like JFK and to the left to fall asleep out of boredom

Ppl used to quote Lt Col Kilgore to Duvall in the streets cause it was cool; I'd have said to Cillian Murphy...

Don't let that crybaby back in here!

And he'd have been like

Shocked

And looking at me

Like

They're my hands

Red

Left and right

Hands

And

Opalite

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I feel sad Robert Duvall died.

He got sick of hearing it, everywhere he went, every f***ing where he went

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Apparently, all over the streets in Cali, when they recognized the guy

Now

I have to coin a catch phrase, which I hope Jacob won't sue me for

Jacob coined: "Angry = writers aren't paid" and "Pages = we publish, not a feed"

I really like that guy

It was so funny

I was watching Oppenheimer, and it's like black and white

And

I thought it was a f***ing lecture

And I fell asleep

And suddenly

Woodrow or

Harry Truman actually

He was like

"Don't let that crybaby back in here"

And I just burst out laughing

Opalite, the sky was onyx, now it's opa-lite

I guess, we can't call it, AngryPages: We love to hate! But that's not who we are. We're not a hate page. We are actually kind of nice. I used to live with ghosts. And all the nice pages, when you know they suck, they suck. And all of my stories, all of tales, I was wrong. But cat told me, it's not okay. I was

Oh my God, never met a dude like Jacob before. I think I just like him cause he's got a LE and Singer in his name.

Jacob: Never going to a movie with that f***ing Lehan guy again!

NOT THE JAPANESE AMERICA Jacob with a LE and singer

BUT MAYBE

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Funny joke time:

So this dude goes to watch Opphenheimer

Okay?

He goes

And then

They're all like

It's a f***ing packed movie theater

And this Truman's like, Don't let that crybaby back in here

And the rest of the audience is like, "oh no" or "boo"

And thinking what a horrible dude

And then this one dude, he's like laughing hysterically

Historically

Uncontrollably, and it's all quiet

And they stare at this guy

And he's like

Oh he's so wicked

This is satire